Perry Richardson Bass

Richardson Bass was born on November 11, 1914, in Wichita Falls, Texas to oil operator Dr. E. Perry Bass and Anne Richardson Bass. He was educated at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology in 1937. ==Career==

He worked for his uncle, Sid W. Richardson, a rancher and oil wildcatter, in the 1940s and 1950s. Upon his uncle's death, he inherited his oil and ranching interests, worth several million dollars. ==Philanthropy==

As a result of good investments, Bass was worth US$1 billion by 2005 and was the 746th-wealthiest American citizen. With his wife, he has donated art to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. The Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Center for Molecular and Structural Biology is named after Bass and his wife, and was completed in 1993. ==Sailor==

Perry built his own wooden Snipe sailboat; in 1935, while studying at Yale, he won the Snipe class world sailing championship. A one-time vice commodore of the Houston Yacht Club and a longtime member of the Del Rey Yacht Club, he was honorary navigator for Ted Turner's "American Eagle" when it won the Southern Ocean Racing Circuit and the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race in 1972. ==Personal life==

He married Nancy Lee Muse in 1941. They had four sons, all notable businessmen and philanthropists, and all billionaires: Sid Bass (born 1942), Ed Bass (born 1945), Robert Bass (born 1948) and Lee Bass (born 1956) Bass family ==Death==

He died on June 1, 2006, in Fort Worth, Texas. ==References==